Kamalkant Yadav
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Pardeep Thakral
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Rekha Soni & Archana Sharma
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Thumma Srinivasarao
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Sonal Patil
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Hans Raj & Deepa Rani Saxena
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Brainstorming activity is one of the most important methods for developing creative thinking in the students as well as resolving the problems in the field of education, social and economic growth, political issues etc. it is particularly helpful when one need to break out stales, established patterns of thinking so that they can develop quick new ways of looking at things. The purpose of this review paper is to analyze the previous studies and provide suggestions for further research. In this paper, a review of some studies has done from 1975 to 2015. Many studies have conducted regarding the effectiveness of brainstorming for ideas generation in different areas but there is not satisfactory status of researches on brainstorming used as a teaching method for improving novel ideas generation and developing creative thinking in the teaching-learning process. Therefore, it is need to focus on its implication in the classroom situation and give attention on further research for finding out better results of brainstorming. This paper will provide a better view about process and importance of brainstorming and further insight about knowledge gaps, i.e. study of brainstormingwith other new concepts as- aesthetic creativity, mathematical creativity, intelligence, scientific attitude and other demographic variables.
Key words: Brainstorming, Creative thinking, Teaching methods.